Literary Criticism of Poetry

This guide addresses the need for literary criticism for beginning literary critics. It provides resources for finding poems, for getting summaries, reviews, and criticism or explication of poetry.

Websites

Poets.org
Poets.org currently features biographies of more than 2,000 poets and more than 6,000 poems.
Internet Poetry Archive
Resource makes available the works from contemporary poets Seamus Heaney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wilbur.
Representative Poetry Online
A web anthology of 4,800 poems in English and French by over 700 poets spanning 1400 years.

Interlibrary Loan

If we do not have the article, book, or DVD you need, you can fill out the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) form and request it. This is a free service for students, faculty, and staff.

ILL request form: https://library.uncw.edu/ill